With Groovy 2.4 you can programming for Android, this presentation about why Groovy is cool on Android.

2. Who are you?

3. def speaker = new SZJUG.Speaker(
name: 'Alexey Zhokhov',
employer: 'Scentbird',
occupation: 'Grails Developer',
github: 'donbeave',
email: 'alexey@zhokhov.com',
site: 'http://www.zhokhov.com',
description: """whole-stack engineer
(back-end, front-end, mobile, UI/UX)"""
)

4. Android on Gradle

5. Groovy is inside the Gradle
You probably know Groovy through Gradle already.
Groovy is a superset of Java.
It contains lots of cool stuff that makes Java fun!

6. So,
Why can Groovy be
Android' Swift?

7. Android N supports Java 8
"Android is in the Java stone age state"
But not released

8. Multi-faceted language:
Object-oriented
Dynamic
Functional
Static
Groovy is
Straightforward integration with Java.

9. Java on Android is very verbose

10. public class FeedActivity {
TextView mTextView;
void updateFeed() {
new FeedTask().execute("http://path/to/feed");
}
class FeedTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(new BasicHttpParams());
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(params[0]);
InputStream inputStream = null;
String result = null;
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11. try {
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
inputStream = entity.getContent();
// json is UTF-8 by default
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line).append("n");
}
result = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
// Oops
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12. } finally {
try {
if (inputStream != null) {
inputStream.close();
}
} catch (Exception squish) {
}
}
StringBuilder speakers = null;
try {
JSONObject jObject = new JSONObject(result);
JSONArray jArray = jObject.getJSONArray("speakers");
speakers = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < jArray.length(); i++) {
speakers.append(jArray.getString(i));
speakers.append(" ");
}
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13. } catch (JSONException e) {
// do something?
}
return speakers.toString();
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String s) {
mTextView.setText(s);
}
}
}
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14. So now,
let’s see the equivalent in Groovy
(no kidding either)

15. class FeedActivity {
TextView mTextView
void updateFeed() {
Fluent.async {
def json = new JsonSlurper().parse([:], new URL('http://path/to/feed'), 'utf-8')
json.speakers.join(' ')
} then {
mTextView.text = it
}
}
}

16. Because I'm lazy, I don't like to write a lot of code.
And Groovy helps me with that.

17. It's not only for writing less code,
it's also for cool features and good readability.
very consice language, actually

18. Semicolons
Parenthesis
return keyword
public keyword
Optional

19. Sugar syntax

20. 1) Groovy truth
// if (s != null && s.length() > 0) { ...}
if (s) { ... }
// easy check for empty maps, list, empty strings

21. 2) Elvis
def name = person.name ?: "unknown"

22. 3) Save navigation
order?.lineItem?.item?.name

23. Where I have seen it?

24. Right, Apple's Swift
language was inspired by Groovy

25. 4) List, maps (Groovy)
def shoppingList = ["catfish", "water", "tulips", "blue paint"]
shoppingList[1] = "bottle of water"
def occupations = [
"Malcolm": "Captain",
"Kaylee": "Mechanic",
]
occupations["Jayne"] = "Public Relations"
def emptyMap = [:]
def emptyList = []

26. 4) List, maps (Swift)
var shoppingList = ["catfish", "water", "tulips", "blue paint"]
shoppingList[1] = "bottle of water"
var occupations = [
"Malcolm": "Captain",
"Kaylee": "Mechanic",
]
occupations["Jayne"] = "Public Relations"
var emptyMap = [:]
var emptyList = []

27. 5) Named parameters (Groovy)
def triangleAndSquare =
new TriangleAndSquare(size: 10, name: "another test shape")

28. 5) Named parameters (Swift)
var triangleAndSquare =
TriangleAndSquare(size: 10, name: "another test shape")

29. 6) @Lazy annotation (Groovy)
class DataManager {
@Lazy importer = new DataImporter()
}

30. 6) @Lazy annotation (Swift)
class DataManager {
@lazy var importer = DataImporter()
}

31. 7) Closure (Groovy)
numbers.collect { int number ->
def result = 3 * numbers
return result
}

32. 7) Closure (Swift)
numbers.map({
(number: Int) -> Int in
let result = 3 * number
return result
})

33. What else is cool in Groovy?

34. 8) Builders import groovy.json.*
def json = new JsonBuilder()
json.conference {
name 'SZJUG'
subject 'Groovy on Android'
date 2016
time ['13:00', '16:00']
address {
place 'GRAPE 联合创业空间'
street '布吉街道吉华路247号下水径商业大厦三层 3/f'
district '龙岗区'
city '深圳市'
country '中国'
}
}

35. {
"conference": {
"name": "SZJUG",
"subject": "Groovy on Android",
"date": 2016,
"time": [
"13:00",
"16:00"
],
"address": {
"place": "GRAPE 联合创业空间",
"street": "布吉街道吉华路247号下水径商业大厦三层 3/f'",
"district": "龙岗区",
"city": "深圳市",
"country": "中国"
}
}
}
JSON

36. 7) Immutability
@Immutable(copyWith = true)
class User {
String username, email
}

37. 7) Immutability
// Create immutable instance of User.
def paul = new User('PaulVI', 'paul.verest@live.com')
// will throw an exception on
// paul.email = 'pupkin@mail.com'
def tomasz = mrhaki.copyWith(username: 'Tomasz')

38. 8) String interpolation
def level = "badly"
println "I love SZJUG $level"

39. // Java
TextView view =
new TextView(context);
view.setText(name);
view.setTextSize(16f);
view.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
TextView view =
new TextView(context)
view.with {
text = name
textSize = 16f
textColor = Color.WHITE
}
->

40. How to read text file from SD card?
def f = new FIle("/sdcard/dir/f.txt")
if (f.exists() && f.canRead()) {
view.text = f.text
}

41. You have to write a lot of anonymous classes EVERYWHERE
// Java
button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
void onClick(View v) {
startActivity(intent);
}
})
button.onClickListener = { startActivity(intent) }
->

42. No native support for generating classes
at runtime
Focus on @CompileStatic
Problems
Generate bytecode, that runs
at the same speed as java files

43. How to start?

44. Gradle plugin
buildscript {
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.0'
classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:gradle-groovy-android-plugin:0.3.10'
}
}
apply plugin: 'groovyx.grooid.groovy-android'
dependencies {
compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:2.4.6:grooid'
}

45. Performance

46. Groovy jar 4.5 MB
Application size 2 MB
ProGuard only 1 MB!
~8.2 MB of RAM
for @CompileStatic
if not - slower and more RAM

47. Frameworks

48. SwissKnife
http://arasthel.github.io/SwissKnife/

49. def "should display hello text"() {
given:
def textView = new TextView(RuntimeEnvironment.application)
expect:
textView.text == "Hello"
}
Familiar with that?

50. Spock
http://robospock.org/

51. ?